You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
On Thursday, members of Central Alabama Pride raised gay pride flags along its Southside parade route, despite Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford having said it would not be allowed to do so. The organization will hold its annual gay pride parade there Saturday evening.
Popularity: 12% [...]

Popularity: 12% [?]

… reverses course, again, again, again …
War on Dumb by Kyle Whitmire
They voted for it before they voted against it, but not before they delayed voting against it a week, and then, once having voted against it, reconsidering that vote and then delaying another vote for another week, then finally voting for being against it, [...]

Popularity: 13% [?]

According to Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford sexual preference is a kind of lifestyle choice, the sort of thing we pick up as a hobby or extracurricular activity.

Popularity: 14% [?]

City council doesn’t notice capital budget missing
War on Dumb by Kyle Whitmire
The Mayor-Council Act, the veritable constitution for the City of Birmingham, requires that the mayor do three things on or before May 20 of each year.
• The mayor must propose, for the council’s approval, an operations budget.
• The mayor must propose, for the council’s [...]

Popularity: 13% [?]

Langford scandals just a media ruse
War on Dumb by Kyle Whitmire
It’s all a conspiracy. News media who are upset that another candidate — Patrick Cooper — didn’t win the mayoral election last fall have been conniving with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice to frame Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford with everything [...]

Popularity: 13% [?]

Langford’s Dino Domain not as bad as the sequels
War on Dumb by Kyle Whitmire
VisionLand might be the land before time in the mayor’s mind, but one particular venture there is worth the rest of us remembering — fossilized evidence of implementation gone awry.
It was 1998. VisionLand was finishing its first full season in business. The [...]

Popularity: 11% [?]

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
You’re not hallucinating. That really is City Stages’ logo you see in the clouds.
Popularity: 12% [?]

Popularity: 12% [?]

On Tuesday Mayor Larry Langford proposed to the Birmingham City Council a $429 million operating budget, but the companion capital budget was conspicuously missing.

Popularity: 11% [?]

A plan proposed by the Birmingham Water Works Board to refinance bonds includes a embattled investment bank, Blount Parrish, recently sued by the SEC and under investigation by the Department of Justice.

Popularity: 13% [?]

If WBHM’s recent shift away from classical music baroque your heart, then there’s not much we can do for you (except maybe suggest Pandora). In the meantime, Birmingham’s public radio station is taking a greater interest in local news, even bringing newspaper people on the air.
And, they let us sit on the good furniture.
Beginning this [...]

Popularity: 21% [?]